Media Mogul

You know I don't know why it just hit me now but it did. Rupert Murdock owns Myspace.com. I mean I knew this, I read about it the day he bought it but for some reason I just put it towards the back of my mind. Until just now. The guy who pretty much owns and who runs the News Corporation(Fox News, The New York Post....and upwards of 50 other news papers, magazines and television stations) now owns myspace. I wonder what the future will now hold for this social networking website. What will happen in the next presidential election? What if I get on and start broadcasting my political views for president and they don't match Rupert Murdocks will I get censored. Makes you think.

Tourist

This weekend I'm going to try to be a tourist. Run around town and take pictures of me and San Francisco and maybe my bike. I still don't know if I'm going to bring it back with me or if I'm just going to try to sell the frame or just give it away.......we shall see. Maybe if I go into the bike kitchen this weekend and see if they have wheels for my bike I'll keep it.

Hmmmmm

Something's amiss and doesn't feel right.

"The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together. Though I care little about riches as any man, I am a friend to riches because they are capable of good............But it is impossible to enjoy affluence with the felicity it is capable of being enjoyed, while so much misery is mingled in the scene. The sight of the misery, and the unpleasant sensations it suggests, which, though they may be suffocated cannot be extinguished, are a greater drawback upon the felicity of affluence than the proposed ten percent upon property is worth. He that would not give the one to get rid of the other has no charity even for himself."

A Moment of Clarity (While Riding a Broken Bike Up A Hill)

So I had a moment of clarity while riding my bike this morning. Wait, riding my newly broken bike up a hill. So I'm a fan of the scientific process. Through observation you make a conjecture and then from there a hypothesis based on other observations (that's the watered down version). So the first time my bike broke I observed that the tire was rubbing against the frame thereby inhibiting the wheel from spinning. So based on what I saw I fixed it. Now what bugged me about that was how did the wheel get like that in the first place. I mean how did my wheel get like that. Well this morning I think I might have figured out the reason. It seems as though the right nut on my back wheel likes to go loose. When this happens it causes my back wheel to angle in on the left side of the frame in turn making the bike useless again. So now I know I almost know why the bike isn't working all I need to figure out is why the right nut on the back wheel sometimes goes loose.

It's a live

So yesterday, after searching around for a wrench, I popped my back tire off my frame and I headed off to the Bike Kitchen (a bicycle co-op somewhat near my apartment, they have all the tools and let you use them for free but a donation is appreciated). Once there I spent about an hour to an hour and a half truing my wheel. At first it was making large adjustments then after that seemed to do more damage then to help the situation I went through the whole wheel and started to make little adjustments. While I was truing my wheel a guy took some photos of me for one of his journalism projects which might also be used for some publicity stuff for the Bike Kitchen. After trying to true it as best as I could I stopped and took the tire off the stand. I found the bend in the tire and gave it a whack against the pavement which helped straighten out the wheel. I came home and put the tire back on and took it on a test ride. The first time I tried to ride it the back tire fell off and I ended up getting a crotch full of seat which wasn't pleasant. So I came back put the tire on again and re-checked it. Re-checked it again for my future children's sake and went on another ride. It rode beautifully. I just forgot that me and Ben had disabled my back breaks so the tire could spin. So still need to hook up my back breaks. I also took off the stupid water bottle holder which just annoyed me. On a side note I got the distinct impression that not everybody shows up to the bike kitchen to just fix there bikes or at least it was just that girl but she was nice.

He's To Young To Die

So last night I took some time to do a little diagnosis of what was wrong with my bike and this is what I came up with:
*occurred when I was hit by that car

- *Front Wheel Not True: The front wheel was smacked pretty hard by the car. I was able to true it as much as possible but the wheel still had a little wobble in it.

- Back Wheel Not True: Hell if I know how this happened. The wheel is incredibly twisted. Four or five of the spoke are really loose. The wheel is in such bad shape that it doesn't spin.

- Tight Chain Link: Two of my chain links are tight. This means that about twice every rotation the chain slips and my pedal falls suddenly. It is the most annoying thing in the world.

- *Handle Bars Come Loose: When I'm riding the handle bars come loose and start to move.

- *Stem is Crooked

- Back Tire is Worn: Do to the fact that my back tire wasn't true it was causing it to rub against the frame, now there is a noticeable wear in the tire meaning it could go at any moment.

Prognosis: Currently unrideable. Do to the fact that the back tire is so bent out the wheel can't even turn now preventing me from riding the bike.

Course of Action: Take of the rear tire, and walk down to the bike kitchen tomorrow and true the tire. Walk back with the trued tire and throw it back on my bike. Ride back to the bike kitchen to fix my stem and handlebars and to degrease my chain to see if I can work out the tight links. Right now it comes down to cutting my loses. I need a bike to live in San Francisco but I don't need a perfectly working bike to get around. So if I can get it rideable again then all will be well.